Sang Hong was furious: "Do you know that biting the prince is a serious crime against the nine tribes!"
Taohong sighed: "Look, I'm so scared just hearing the name, so why do you want me to confess?"
Sang Hong's face turned blue and white, as if he was thinking about something.
Pei You and Zu An looked at each other, and then their anger disappeared, and the room suddenly fell into a strange silence.
Only Zu An was calmer and said in a deep voice: "Did King Qi send you here personally, or did someone under his command send you here?"
Taohong replied: "How could the King of Qi personally handle such a matter? It was naturally arranged by his subordinates."
"Then how do you know that someone is not using the name of King Qi." Zu An said in a deep voice.
Taohong snorted: "How can those of us who are secret agents not know who we are loyal to?"
"If that's the case, why did you betray him so quickly?" Zu An said calmly. Although the Embroidered Clothes Messenger was good at interrogating, as a secret agent, she confessed too quickly.
Taohong said bitterly: "Do you know why I was caught by Yun Jianyue?"
Without waiting for Zu An to answer, she continued: "Because after I completed the mission here, I was silenced by the killers under King Qi. Fortunately, I had the foresight to be prepared in advance and escaped. What a coincidence.
He caught me when I arrived at Yunjianyue."
Several people looked at each other and admired that this woman was actually a smart person.
At this time, Pei You spoke: "The last time I saw you in Biyufang, the deep love you showed for Shen Zhou was true or false?"
Taohong sneered: "Now that the matter is over, is there any difference between the real thing and the fake one?"
Pei You said in a low voice: "Of course there is a difference."
Seeing the other party's scorching eyes, Taohong was silent for a long time before she said: "I have been trained as a spy since I was a child, and everything I have received is cruel and cold. Even the occasional overtures from my superiors are nothing more than the methods of my subordinates.
.Only Shen Zhou gave me sincerity and warmth. Although he was clumsy and dull, I really fell in love with him."
Zu An said calmly: "It's a pity that you still killed him."
Taohong smiled sadly: "Yes, I did kill him. When I reported his discovery to my superiors, I knew what kind of fate he would have. Unfortunately, I didn't understand my own heart at that time. Plus
I was afraid of betrayal and retaliation from the organization, so I didn’t think too much about it.”
"It wasn't until I learned of his death that I realized I was wrong. Unfortunately, it was too late to regret it."
"But you continued to work for King Qi as if nothing happened afterwards, and you even used Sin Zhou to mislead us in handling the case." Zu An said in a deep voice.
Taohong lowered her head: "What can I do? Life and death are in the hands of others. How can I say no? How can you high-ranking big shots know the sorrow of us little people?"
Zu An remained silent, knowing that what the other party said was the truth.
This woman probably had feelings for Shen Zhou, but unfortunately she didn't have the courage to resist King Qi, so she lived in entanglement and pain.
"Did you modify the Zhenyuan Chamber of Commerce's account books?" Sang Hong asked. He was old and used to ups and downs. His heart was as hard as iron and he didn't care about the love affairs of these young people at all. Only care about the most critical issues.
Taohong hummed: "I didn't participate. A special person disguised himself to take out the real account book, and then replaced it with a new one. I don't know what the specific modifications were."
"Who is the person you are contacting? How can we find him?" Sang Hong asked.
"Shopkeeper Ma of Ping'an Pharmacy in the west of the city, because many girls in Biyufang often need doctor's treatment, so he can come in and out frequently without arousing suspicion," Taohong replied.
Sang Hong hurriedly winked at Xiao Jianren who was standing aside. The other party understood and hurriedly left with his men to arrest the person.
"Do you have any other evidence?" Sang Hong continued to ask.
Taohong shook her head: "Those who work in our profession are all on guard against each other, and no evidence will be left anywhere."
Sang Hong frowned and continued to interrogate, but unfortunately he did not get any useful clues later.
So he left Pei You to continue the interrogation, while he moved Zu An to the secret room for discussion.
"Are we going to suppress it this time too?" Zu An asked curiously.
Sang Hong shook his head: "Previously, King Yan was not the emperor's target. If they were forced to rebel against the emperor, we would be blamed. But King Qi is what the emperor wants to deal with, so we naturally have no such concerns."
"It's a pity that there are only witnesses and no physical evidence." Zu An said worriedly. After all, King Qi is worth more than ten thousand people. It is really difficult to deal with him just relying on Tao Hong's confession.
Sang Hong also sighed: "Yes, now it depends on whether Mr. Xiao can gain something, but I am not optimistic about it."
Zu An also agreed with this judgment. How could an old fox like King Qi leave such obvious flaws after Taohong escaped.
At the same time, he was also a little hesitant. He had communicated with King Qi before in the capital, and they had also made a "covenant". Although both parties knew that this thing was unreliable, Zuan really needed King Qi to help him deal with the emperor. , it is best to lose both sides. If King Qi is directly hammered to death, it will not be in his interest.
Not long after, Xiao Jianren came back. The reason why he came back so quickly was that Ping An Pharmacy had long been empty, except for a few clerks who were completely unaware.
"As expected." Sang Hong smiled bitterly and began to hesitate whether to hand over the peach red.
Although he had no interest relationship with the King of Qi, he was thinking about another level. This crime was extraordinary. Once the accusation was made, he did not take any action. As a result, the King of Qi survived in the end. With the emperor's cold temperament, maybe he would be punished again. The Sang family will be pushed out as scapegoats.
I already suffered a loss last time, and I don’t want to make the same mistake again this time.
At this moment, another subordinate came to report: "There was a fire in a village on the outskirts of the city."
Sang Hong snorted: "Why do you tell us about such a trivial matter? Do you think we don't do enough?"
The soldier hurriedly explained: "It's the village where Shen Zhou's widow lives."
Because Zu An had gone there to investigate before, the mission sent people to secretly pay attention to the relevant information, but they didn't expect to get this bad news.
"What!" Zu An was shocked and hurriedly asked for the specific situation.
The soldier replied: "The specific situation is not clear. It seems that the fire broke out in the middle of the night because everyone was sleeping soundly. Then the fire spread quickly due to the wind. No one in the village of 36 survived."
Zu An's voice was extremely cold: "It snowed heavily in the past few days. How can it be so easy to catch fire? And there is not a single person alive in the whole village!"
"Shut up!" Sang Hong also made the same judgment.
Soon Zu An and Sang Hong led people to the crime scene on the outskirts of the city, where government officials were already collecting the bodies.
There was an extremely unpleasant smell in the air. Looking at it, it was like purgatory on earth. Many government officials couldn't bear it and retched on the sidelines.
With no expression on his face, Zu An walked directly to Shen Zhou's wife and children. Thinking that the tough-headed boy had now turned into a piece of charred coal, he felt furious in his heart.
Although I already knew that for the powerful and powerful, the lives of ordinary people were worthless, but I still didn't expect that they would be so bottomless and would not let go of such a small child.
At this time, a yamen clerk came to report: "A preliminary autopsy has been conducted. There is a large amount of smoke and black ash in the lungs of the deceased, which is consistent with the characteristics of death by burning. Homicide can be temporarily ruled out."
Zu An looked at him coldly: "How did these people die?"
The man replied: "The death was peaceful. He must have been burned to death in his sleep."
Zu An snorted: "No matter how deep they sleep, will they not react if the fire burns them like this? It is obvious that their acupuncture points were controlled before death, and then they were set on fire and burned alive!"
"This... this... who is so crazy!" The clerk was obviously frightened.
Zu An did not answer, but directly picked up the young skeleton and said in a deep voice: "There is no need to take these two people back to the Yamen. I will let them rest in their graves first."
Now that we know the murderer, there is no need to let them expose their bodies in the yamen.
With Zu An's cultivation level, he quickly dug a big pit, split the trees and made a simple coffin to bury the mother and son.
He remained silent throughout the whole process. Sang Hong comforted him: "Azu, don't blame yourself too much. This has nothing to do with you."
Zu An did not answer, but silently took out the wooden sword that the child had given him: "I swear with this sword that I will avenge you, otherwise there would be such a sword!"
After saying that, his power was shaken, and the wooden sword broke into two pieces.
He was about to insert the broken sword into the grave, but suddenly his eyes froze.